Comments on: How to add punch to your digital photos with the Levels and Curves tools http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: career http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-174361 career Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:34:19 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5318#comment-174361 <strong>career...</strong> career... career…

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]]> By: Laptop Bags http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-45240 Laptop Bags Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:35:45 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5318#comment-45240 Thanks for the post. This is super helpful! Thanks for the post. This is super helpful!

]]> By: Darien Graham-Smith http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-44350 Darien Graham-Smith Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:20:53 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5318#comment-44350 Whoa - spooky Dave somehow managed to reply to my comment before I posted it! I was just going to suggest that if you're lazy (like me) another quick and dirty way to punch up a picture is with Photoshop's "Adjust Shadow/Highlight" tool, which stretches out the histogram in under- and over-exposed areas to improve the contrast and bring out more detail. You don't get as much control as with the full "Adjust Curves" tool, and the results can be a bit lurid if you apply them to the full frame. But used selectively it's a brilliant time-saver. I did think it was only in the full version of Photoshop (under Image | Adjust | Shadow/Highlight), but as our resident clairvoyant has already pointed out, it's also in Photoshop Elements. Bonzer. Whoa – spooky Dave somehow managed to reply to my comment before I posted it!

I was just going to suggest that if you’re lazy (like me) another quick and dirty way to punch up a picture is with Photoshop’s “Adjust Shadow/Highlight” tool, which stretches out the histogram in under- and over-exposed areas to improve the contrast and bring out more detail. You don’t get as much control as with the full “Adjust Curves” tool, and the results can be a bit lurid if you apply them to the full frame. But used selectively it’s a brilliant time-saver.

I did think it was only in the full version of Photoshop (under Image | Adjust | Shadow/Highlight), but as our resident clairvoyant has already pointed out, it’s also in Photoshop Elements. Bonzer.

]]> By: Dave http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-44161 Dave Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:32 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5318#comment-44161 In fact it's in both: in Photoshop Elements you can go to Enhance | Adjust Lighting | Shadows/Highlights... I can't seem to find a specific shadows/highlight tool in the GIMP, though. Anyone? In fact it’s in both: in Photoshop Elements you can go to Enhance | Adjust Lighting | Shadows/Highlights…

I can’t seem to find a specific shadows/highlight tool in the GIMP, though. Anyone?

]]> By: Matt Holliday http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/03/19/how-to-add-punch-to-your-digital-photos-with-the-levels-and-curves-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-44117 Matt Holliday Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:13:44 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5318#comment-44117 This is a great little guide. Been looking for a guide like this for some time and here it is in plain English. Thanks very much. This is a great little guide. Been looking for a guide like this for some time and here it is in plain English. Thanks very much.

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